1. Abstract
Bob Baringer, M.D.
ME AND THE PLANTS
Twenty years of being with, observing, and experiencing the
ceremonies, medicines, mind, and spirit of various shamans and
healers who use psychoactive plants as the central medicine of
their lives. Their indigenous traditions go back millenia, and
they all recognize the spirit of the plants and the plants as
teacher, healer, harmonizer of the energies of all.
My presentation is about how this all came about for me, and
my experiences and learnings along the way. Over the last 20
years I have participated in numerous healing ceremonies with a
number of indigenous Shamans and healers in Peru, Venezuela,
Mexico, and Canada and have had the opportunity to spend
time in their company, observe them at work and partake of
their medicines.
I have not met an indigenous teacher using Ibogaine, but have
met the spirit of that plant medicine.
These ancient teachers and the medicine men and women who
use them have much to offer us in our attempts to understand
life.